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Time for the second instalment of my breakdown of the MAC Nutcracker Sweet collection for Holiday 2016! This time we are looking at the Face products and the Lip products that have been released with this collection, so let’s get started shall we?!

First up we are going to do the face products because there are quite a few!

Face Compacts £29

Face Compact / Sweet Copper

Face Compact / Sweet Peach

Let’s just all take a deep breathe, and then slightly lose our mind at the fact Whisper of Gilt is BACK! Possibly one of the most highly coveted highlighters of all time has made its comeback!! The packaging and the embossing on the pans themselves is absolutely stunning with the rope pattern making them look very decadent.

These compacts contain an Extra Dimension Skinfinish, and an Extra Dimension Blush. None of the shades are carried in the permanent line.

Sweet Copper

♡ Whisper of Gilt is a pale gold shimmer highlighter

♡ Pleasure Model is a peachy brown blush

Sweet Peach

♡ Tutu is a pale pink highlighter

♡ At Dusk is a warm rose shade of blush

The Extra Dimension products do all have a bit of shimmer to them, although the blushes don’t look as though they have too much that it would make them unbearable or highlight any texture on the cheeks.

Size and Pricing

♡ The Face Compacts retail for £29, which is a good price considering you get a decent amount of product.

♡ Nowhere on the MAC website does it say how much product you get in the pans, however from seeing photos floating around on the internet they do look like decent sizes pans.

I think these compacts are worth the money purely for the sheer exclusivity of the shades, extra dimension blushes are not something that appear very often, and Whisper of Gilt is a cult favourite.

Magic Dust Powder £24

Magic Dust Powder / Sweet Vision

Magic Dust Powder / Yum Yum Yum

Magic Dust Powders aren’t a product I have seen released from MAC before, and as far as I am aware this is the first time that they have appeared in a collection. The MAC website states that they are a “translucent, ultra-fine, light-catching pearlescent powder for face, neck and décolleté”. It sounds as though they are used to give a subtle sheen to areas that you desire.

♡ Sweet Vision is a pinky peach with gold pearl

♡ Yum Yum Yum is a soft pink with gold pearl

♡ Each pan is 10g, which is the size of a regular face powder from MAC.

♡ They retail for £24which is the price of a regular Mineralize SkinFinish.

Lipstick £17

Lipstick / Kingdom of Sweets

Lipstick / Flamboyish

Lipstick / Saucy Little Darling

Lipstick / So Good For You

Lipstick / Leap of Delight

Five Lipsticks have been released with this collection, and can we just take a minute to appreciate the stunning packaging?! The Matte deep plum, the gold barrel and the hot pink lid? What isn’t to love?

♡ Kingdom of Sweets is a soft, milky pink in a Cremesheen finish

♡ Flamboyish is a matte hot, deep pink

♡ Saucy Little Darling is a deep, coral-red, in an amplified créme finish

♡ So Good For You is an intense cool red, in a matte finish that looks like it would make your teeth look incredibly white when worn.

♡ Leap of Delight is a deep, plum purple in a matte finish. This purple lipstick is fairly unique to MAC.

♡ The lipsticks retail for £17 which is £1.50 more than the regular price of £15.50. Although I think just to own the stunning, incredibly unique packaging it would be worth it.

Viva Glam Lip Compact £20

Viva Glam Lip Compact

The lip palette that has been released with this collection is a fairly diverse one, you get a pale warm nude, a slightly darker nude and a cool toned red. The palette includes 3 of the most iconic Viva Glam Lipstick shades.

(From Left to Right)

♡ Viva Glam II is a muted, pink beige with shimmer in a satin finish

♡ Viva Glam VI is a terracotta plum with pearl in a lustre finish

♡ Viva Glam I is an intense brownish, blue based red in a matte finish.

♡ The lip palette retails for £20, which I think is a fairly decent price considering you get to trial 3 Viva Glam shades, although the MAC website does say that the palette is 2 inches by 2.3 inches, which is pretty small, so I don’t think you get a lot of product per pan.

I have already broken down the Eye Products that have been released with this collection (which you can read here). Next up is going to be the smaller kits that MAC have released with this collection.

It’s that time of year again when everyone’s emails, twitters and YouTube feeds are full of the exciting launches that the holiday season brings.

Let’s start off with an absolutely massive launch shall we? MAC never fail to disappoint when it comes to Holiday collections and this year is no different. The launch is so massive that I am going to break it down into 4 different posts:

This post is going to be all about the stand alone eye products. There are quite a few so let’s get started!

First of all there are 2 different types of Liner launching with this holiday collection. The packaging for the liners is definitely different to the usual sleek black Mac packaging that we are all used to. The Liner itself is a beautiful jewel toned purple colour, and the cap is a striking hot pink.

KOHL POWER EYE PENCIL £16

Kohl Power Eye Pencil / Feline

The Kohl Power Eye Pencil in the shade Feline is carried in the permanent line and has simply been relaunched in the Holiday packaging.

♡ The Liner retails for £16, which is £2 more than the regular retail price of £14.

♡ You get 1.45g of product which is a fairly standard amount of product in an eyeliner.

♡ MAC claim that this product is safe for use on the waterline, and is perfectly wearable for contact wearers.

EYE KOHL £16

Eye Kohl / Powersurge

Eye Kohl / Prunella

Two Eye Kohl pencils have been released with this collection, again neither of them in new shades.

♡ Powersurge is a bronzed brown with golden shimmer

♡ Prunella is a purple shade

♡ The Eye Kohls retail again for £16, same as the Kohl Power, which is £2 more than the original retail price.

♡ You get 1.45g of product which again is pretty standard for a Mac Eyeliner.

MAGIC DUST EYE SHADOWS £17.50

Magic Dust Eye Shadow / Forward March

Magic Dust Eye Shadow / Dance Flowers Dance

Magic Dust Eye Shadow / Pretty Dainty

Magic Dust Eye Shadow / Rabblerouser

Magic Dust Eye Shadow / Dark Lullaby

Magic Dust Eye Shadow / Mustache

The Magic Dust Shadow formula is a new one to the Mac line, they claim to be a longwearing, shimmering pearl powder shadow that is creamy to the touch, because of this formula being new, it does mean that all 6 shades are not available int he permanent line.

♡ Foward March is a peachy gold shimmer

♡ Dance Flowers Dance is a light pink

♡ Pretty Dainty is a pink coral shimmer

♡ Rabblerouser is a bright intense pink

♡ Dark Lullaby is a deep, midnight purple

♡ Mustache is a black shadow with a gold glitter running through it

♡ These shadows retail for £17.50 which is fairly pricey for a single shadow from Mac. However, you are getting 2.2g of product per shadow, which is a lot more than the normal MAC shadow size of 1.5g.

PIGMENT £16

Pigment / Process Magenta

Pigment / Rose

Both of the Pigment shades that are being released with this collection are in the regular line, and they do not have any special packaging that is exclusive to the Holiday Collection. For this reason I wouldn’t say that you need to rush out and get them immediately, because they are going nowhere.

♡ Process Magenta is a bright magenta

♡ Rose is a rose shade with a copper sparkle

♡ The pigments are a standard size of 4.5g, a huge amount of pigment that will last an extremely long time, and retail for £16, the price of a regular pigment

EYE COMPACTS £29

Eye Compact / Cool

Eye Compact / Smoky

Eye Compact / Warm

There are three new shadow palettes being released for the Holidays. A Cool palette, a Smoky palette and a warm palette.

We’ll look at the shades in the palettes first and then break down the pan size, amount of product and pricing.

Cool Palette (From Left to Right)

♡ Enchanted Beauty is a pale pink shimmer in a lustre finish

♡ Performance Art is a mauve with a silver pearl in a lustre finish

♡ The Wrong Man is a pale cool pink satin shade

♡ Marzipan is a muted plummy taupe in a matte finish

♡ Quite Spoiled is a muted midtone lilac in a satin finish

♡ Absurdly Pretty is a matte raspberry shade

♡ Sugar Plum is a dirty matte grape shade

♡ Plum Darling is a metallic charcoal plum in a lustre finish

♡ Nutcracker is a deep blackened purple in a satin finish

Smoky Palette (From Left to Right)

♡ Too-dle-oo is a light warm beige shade in a finish

♡ Deception is a cool medium brown

♡ Sweet Dreams is awarm midstone stone

♡ Kid is a beige cashmere

♡ Dewdrop is a bright apricot

♡ Cake & Biscuit is a soft peachy brown

♡ Swiss Chocolate is a muted reddish brown

♡ Dance In The Dark is a deep cool brown

♡ Licorice Lane is a deep blackened brown

Warm Palette (From Left to Right)

♡ Filament is a platinum silver in a lustre finish

♡ Whirling is a metallic silver beige in a lustre finish

♡ Era is a soft golden beige with with shimmer in a satin finish

♡ Woodwinked is a warm antique gold in the Veluxe Pearlfusion finish

♡ Unwind is a dirty olive in the Veluxe Pearlfusion finish

♡ Lady Fingers is a true gold in a velvet finish

♡ Twelve Chimes is a metallic deep cool brown in a lustre finish

♡ Showstopper is a matte deep blackened brown

♡ Beyond Gorgeous is a black with a gold pearl in a Veluxe Pearlfusion finish

The Smoky palette is a completely matte palette, whereas the Cool and Warm palettes have a few different finishes of shadow in them.

♡ Both palettes retail for £29, which works out at just over £3.20 per shadow.

♡ The entire palette is 10g, which works out at about 1.1g of shadow per pan. Considering a single MAC shadow is 1.5g I think these palettes are an amazing deal.